Becky moves back north, and John and Laura arrive and rejoin the campaign.
1/5/3130: The group arrives in Balimar. Agatha and Chalgt are raised.
1/8/3130: Erik casts find familiar. The result is his faithful pseudo-dragon, Minna.
1/9/3130: The group remains in Balimar to rest and train. Chalgt retires from the group and departs for Greymarsh and a settled, married life.
1/11/3130: Dardania joins the group.
1/14/3130: The group heads north, back to Spineless Shiela's.
1/20/3130: The group re-enters the castle of Spineless Shiela.
2/7/3130: The group reaches the keep of Lord Luke, marking the end of the Spineless Shiela adventure. Erik, Dardania, and Orsnian are dead, but all three are raised at Luke's.
2/23/3130: The group departs Luke's keep and heads for Ossana by way of Balimar.
3/13/3130: The group reaches Ossana.
3/15/3130: Roberath completes his training and becomes a full bard.
3/20/3130: The group arrives in Greymarsh for Chalgt and Myra's wedding.
3/29/3130: Chalgt and Myra are married.
3/30/3130: Bug Boghouse arrives in Greymarsh, and Roberath departs to begin his promised service with the mage. The group tests magic items they have found, and Agatha and Orsnian save Jedinna from doing herself in as the result of a suicide potion.
4/2/3130: Rutha arrives and tells the group that Ehrin Cindu is causing trouble in Copperhame. The group departs for Copperhame along with Rutha.
4/10/3130: The group reaches Copperhame.
4/11/3130: They depart for the Trollstep Hills and Ehrin Cindu.
4/13/3130: The group battles a band of orcs and rescues their captive, a baby gold dragon. Mom dragon arrives and nearly attacks, thinking the heroes are the dragon-nappers, but things are straightened out in time.
4/15/3130: The group reaches the cave opening and negotiates the labyrinth that leads to the main cavern. They are attacked by the forces of Ehrin Cindu and defeat them. Ehrin flees to the Altar of the Old Ones, and the group follows via the teleporter. While searching for Ehrin they find the belt of messy death, and Orsnian packs it. The group and Ehrin fight, and the evil cleric traps the group but can't finish them. She flees back to the Temple of the Old Ones, and the group breaks free and again pursues her.
4/16/3130: Ehrin flees the cave and heads outside. Volant and Janee remain at the Temple to ambush her if she returns, and the rest of the group follows her. They catch Ehrin, and Rutha slays her. They burn her spell book.
4/18/3130: The group returns to the cavern and resumes further exploration of the Altar of the Old Ones. Orsnian loses a level to a wraith.
4/20/3130: Agatha is killed by giant fire lizards. The group leaves the dungeon.
4/24/3130: They return to Copperhame, where Agatha is raised.
4/19/3130: The group says farewell to Rutha and heads back to Greymarsh.
5/8/3130: They reach Greymarsh, where they find Soujrnee waiting for them, his clone spell completed. They discuss their next adventure, and decide to take out Nine-Toes, a minion of the Eyeless Priest who lives near Matoch.
5/11/3130: They reach Ossana, and ride out the next day for Matoch.
5/15/3130: While on the road they meet the dwarves Beletar and Beldraggin. They tell the group of a band of trolls in the area. They join the dwarves in attacking and dispatching the trolls, and free the troll's captive, Mentiri.
5/18/3130: The group reaches Matoch and scout out Nine-Toes.
5/19/3130: The group, aided by Beletar, Beldraggin, and Mentiri, attacks Nine-Toes at dawn. Orsnian gains entrance by carrying Dardania as a "victim" (she has cast feign death upon herself). Erik sneaks in behind them and then lets the rest of the group in. They battle Nine-Toes and his piscodaemons and were-rats. The monsters are slain and Nine-Toes is captured, but Samrith is killed in the fight. She is raised that evening.
5/29/3130: The group reaches Balimar. There Beletar departs for the Isle of Balbar, taking Nine-Toes with him as a prisoner. Beldraggin and Mentiri remain and join the group.
5/30/3130: The group heads north for the Mts. of Shadow to find and explore Crag Keep.
6/4/3130: The group reaches Lord Luke's keep.
6/10/3130: The group becomes slightly lost in the foothills of the Mts. of Shadow.
6/21/3130: While negotiating the passes and valleys, trying to find Crag Keep, the group battles a band of ogres. Orsnian is killed, but the group rescues the ogre's captive, Hedgar the talking hedgehog.
6/22/3130: Hedgar takes the group to his village. There the grateful hedgehogs tell the heroes that a cleric of Tanuanal dwells on a nearby mountain.
6/23/3130: The group finds Oendgar the cleric, who raises Orsnian.
6/29/3130: The group completes the difficult ascent to the courtyard of Crag Keep and begin exploring the outlying structures. They become aware of the evil fighter Feldspar and his minions, who dwell there.
7/2/3130: The group launches a disastrous attack on Feldspar. They are defeated, and Dardania, Orsnian, and Mentiri are killed. The survivors are stripped of their items, weapons, and treasure. They are released, unarmed and far from civilization.
7/3/3130: Agatha and Erik make a daring night raid on Feldspar's stronghold. They succeed in recovering some magic items and a few weapons.
7/7/3130: The group reaches Oendgar's tower. He raises Mentiri, Dardania, and Orsnian.
7/16/3130: The party returns to Crag Keep and again launch an attack on Feldspar. The cunning fighter has departed, however, taking everything of the group's that he can carry with him, though some more stuff is recovered. With the way into the Keep proper now open, however, the group enters and begins to explore.
7/17/3130: The group becomes trapped in a time warp trap on the second level of the Keep. They remain here for several days until Dardania figures out the nature of the place and the group is able to exit.
7/26/3130: The group battles ogres, giant weasels, subterranean lizards, and ochre jellies on the second and third levels of the Keep. That night Mentiri, upset by the group's unwillingness to spare defeated monsters, casts her famous "black pudding widow" illusion.
7/27/3130: Jermlaines steal some of the treasure the group has found. Beldraggin enters their warrens and recovers some of it. Orsnian and Rathbone each lose a level to wraiths.
8/3/3130: The group battles huge scorpions, and too many of them are poisoned for the group's slow poison spells to save. Mentiri retrieves the situation by having the afflicted members enter the "time warp" corridor until enough spells are available.
8/4/3130: The group is still exploring the third level of the Keep. Jedinna is transformed into a +4 defender sword by a cursed scroll.
8/5/3130: Now on the fourth level, the group encounters the Oracle of Phillpi. From the Oracle they learn that the Eyeless Priest is still bent on revenge against the group.
8/6/3130: The group learns that the lair of Sparktacus the blue dragon lies ahead. While testing levers to see which opens a secret door various 24-hour curses afflict the group. Soujrnee's boots scream when he walks in them, Orsnian becomes a pumpkin, and various others are injured, put to sleep, or lose magic items. The last lever they can try turns out to be the correct one.
8/7/3130: Sparktacus is attacked. The blue dragon is defeated and yields his considerable treasure to the group, including a ring of three wishes. The wishes are won by Raang, Janee, and Jedinna. Samrith is killed by a cloak of poisoning.
8/13//3130: The group goes to Oendgar's tower once again. Oendgar raises Samrith. The cleric of Tanuanal at this point is well on his way to becoming wealthy.
8/15/3130: The group remains camped near Oendgar's tower while some of them train. Dardania casts animal friendship and befriends Bertram the squirrel.
8/25/3130: The group reaches Balimar after a trek south.
8/29/3130: Dardania purchases and begins to train a bloodhawk. The group leaves for Ossana.
9/1/3130: While on the road the group tests their suspicion that Agatha has pilfered some diamonds from the group. Soujrnee, Dardania, and Mentiri set a deceptive trap. Raang is the one accidentally caught in it, however, and is nearly killed. Raang confronts those responsible, and there much tension. Agatha is searched, but no diamonds are found. Things are left unresolved.
9/9/3130: Mapes Hazeldrab attacks the group on the Coast Road. Soujrnee drives her off with a successful silence spell, but her single strafing run kills Dardania's bloodhawk.
9/12/3130: The group reaches Ossana. Agatha's cunning diamond theft is revealed by a detect lie spell, and she turns the diamonds over to the group.
9/21/3130: The group remains in Ossana for some time. Raang uses his wish to acquire the ability to regenerate, and Janee uses hers to strengthen her constitution. Raang sells his ring of air elemental command to Volant for 2000 gp, and uses the proceeds to invest in a shipbuilding concern.
9/22/3130: Mentiri hires the hobbit Esta Brothfingers as her personal chef. Beldraggin hires the fighter Vessa as his henchman, and Raang hires Boster Baldwin, Lennie, and Jayorg. The group meets the gnome Deveral Rimbury, who joins the group.
9/28/3130: The group leaves the village of Greymarsh after a brief visit and heads south for the Forbidden City.
10/6/3130: The group ventures south onto the sands of the Great Desert. Dardania casts animal friendship on Beaky the vulture.
10/8/3130: Minna and Beaky take to the air, scouting for the Forbidden City.
10/10/3130: Beaky locates the city.
10/11/3130: The group enters the silent, walled city. They battle and defeat a huge band of orcs. Later, they find Mohenjo-dharo, the lone survivor of another expedition to the city. He joins them.
10/12/3130: The group follows orc tracks and finds the entrance to the dungeon beneath the city. They enter and begin to explore.
10/15/3130: The group has ended up on the fourth level of the dungeon, while believing they are on the second. They discover their plight and, while searching for the way out, meet Berranidor the brass dragon. They decline to pay the dragon for knowledge of the egress and eventually escape on their own.
10/16/3130: The group re-enters the dungeon and explores level 3A. They find a stallion figurine, and Soujrnee is hypnotically implanted with an obsession for it. Stargoth is turned to stone, but Erik reads a scroll spell and changes him back.
10/18/3130: The group encounters a lamia, and Erik, Rathbone, and Orsnian each lose a point of wisdom. The group battles mummies and flesh golems, and the golems kill Beldraggin. Raang is turned into a zombie by a crystal device, and the group has to use remove curse to turn him into a normal corpse.
10/19/3130: The adventurers depart the Forbidden City and head northwest towards Copperhame.
10/25/3130: The group reaches Copperhame, where Raang is raised. The raise dead spell on Beldraggin fails, however.
10/26/3130: The group remains in town to resupply and train. Mohenjo-dharo buys three tracking dogs; Fuzzletongue, Mo, and Burt.
10/28/3130: Deveral and Mentiri hire a guide to take them into the mountains. There they throw a jeweled sword into an ancient mine shaft and pray to Clangeddin Silverbeard for Beldraggin's return. A voice echoes up the shaft in response, granting their request and telling them that payment will come later. Back in Copperhame Beldraggin returns to life.
11/1/3130: Deveral and Mentiri notice that they are beginning to change into dwarves. An upset Mentiri remonstrates with the clerics of Morridan, to no avail.
11/2/3130: The group leaves Copperhame and once again heads for the Forbidden City.
11/9/3130: The group reaches the city and enters the dungeon, descending (voluntarily, this time) to fourth level. There they find Burble, an injured hill giant. The giant is CN, not evil, and swears allegiance to the group for their kindness. The group ascends and descends to level 3B. There they find a strange seed. They take it outside and plant it. It grows into a giant tree with glowing limbs. Agatha and Mohenjo-dharo explore it, and learn this is a Gate Tree, whose limbs are portals to other planes. At dawn the tree turns back into a seed, taking Orsnian, Rathbone, Mohenjo-dharo, Erik, Stargoth, and Jedinna with it. They tree is re-planted, and when it grows again the missing adventurers are still there.
11/10/3130: Mentiri solves the "purple puss" riddle.
11/15/3130: The group is taken to the fifth level of the dungeon by an elevator trap. They head off across the level, seeking the way out. The group is mauled by gorgosaurs, but suffer no fatalities.
11/16/3130: The group fights its way through carrion crawlers and megalo-centipedes and finds the stairs leading up.
11/21/3130: The group returns to fifth level and battles the fearsome Sons of Kyuss. They recover two of three sections of a rod of smiting. That evening Mentiri conjures a phantasmal cake for Soujrnee's birthday, complete with a Jedinna-sword jumping out of it.
11/22/3130: They defeat mummies and then a fearsome mezzodaemon. From the latter they recover the last part of the rod of smiting.
11/24/3130: The group leaves the Forbidden City and heads back north.
11/25/3130: Late in the day the group runs into a group of adventurers, led by Lord Bourne, who are being pursued by a terrible demon. They temporarily increase Dardania's level, and she dispels the demon. The group's ranger, Rodg, flirts with Dardania and gives her a ring.
11/30/3130: They reach Copperhame, staying, as usual, at the Prancing Pegasus.
12/3/3130: Agatha visits the temple of Loki in Copperhame, seeking to have her long-missing hand regenerated. The clerics of Loki agree, providing she will steal a hammer for them from the temple of Thor. Agatha is caught in the attempt and given a quest as punishment.
12/4/3130: Agatha departs, concealing the true reason from the rest of the group. She begins the long journey to Ebar Krowden to fulfill her quest.
12/12/3130: The group reaches and once again enters the Forbidden City dungeon. They battle nightmares back down on 5th level, and Orsnian is killed. A magic ring turns Dardania into a horse.
12/14/3130: The group leaves the city and heads back north.
12/20/3130: They reach Copperhame. Orsnian is raised.
12/25/3130: Agatha returns from Ebar Krowden.
12/26/3130: They leave Copperhame and journey south, heading once again for the Forbidden City.